a group of New England ministers published Early Piety.
slave rebellion in New York City
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Great Awakening
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slavery became increasingly significant in the northern colonies
William Parks set up his printing shop in Annapolis
The Walking Purchase of 1737 was emblematic of both colonists’ desire for cheap land and the changing relationship between Pennsylvanians and their Native neighbors.
Stono Rebellion
Every major port in the region participated to some extent in the transatlantic trade
slavery was legal in every North American colony.
Benjamin Franklin suggested a plan of union
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Seven Years’ War or the French and Indian War
The large French port and fortress of Louisbourg, in present-day Nova Scotia, fell to the British
British general James Wolfe defeated French general Louis-Joseph de Montcalm in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, outside Quebec City.
British defeat the French at the Battle of Minden and destroy large portions of the French fleet.
British captured Quebec
King George III took the crown
Neolin preached the avoidance of alcohol, a return to traditional rituals, and unity among Indigenous people to his disciples, including Pontiac, an Ottawa leader.
Board of Trade to restrict the uses of paper money in the Currency Acts
peace treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg
the British Crown issued the Royal Proclamation
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Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, and Upper Susquehanna Valley areas were embroiled in a war
Sugar Act
The Stamp Act
Virginia Resolves
Pontiac met with British official and diplomat William Johnson at Fort Ontario and settled for peace
London merchants sent a letter to Parliament arguing that they had been “reduced to the necessity of pending ruin” by the Stamp Act and the subsequent boycotts.
roups calling themselves the Sons of Liberty were formed in most colonies to direct and organize further resistance.
Pressure on Parliament grew until, in February 1766, it repealed the Stamp Act.
Britain’s next attempt to draw revenues from the colonies, the Townshend Acts, were passed in June 1767
Britain sent regiments to Boston
Philadelphia overtook Boston
Boston Massacre
slave-owning Quakers could be expelled from their meetings
Parliament passed two acts to aid the failing East India Company
Committees of Correspondence and/or extralegal assemblies were established in all of the colonies except Georgia.
The First Continental Congress convened
British regiments set out to seize local militias’ arms and powder stores in Lexington and Concord.
Philadelphia printer Robert Bell issued hundreds of thousands of copies of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary Common Sense.
British forces had abandoned Boston arriving in New York.
British general John Burgoyne led an army from Canada to secure the Hudson River.
British had held Philadelphia and New York and yet still weakened their position.
Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed
British shifted their attentions to the South, where they believed they enjoyed more popular support.
each town sent delegates—312 in all—to a constitutional convention in Cambridge.
Jefferson proposed a Statute for Religious Freedom in the Virginia state assembly
Massachusetts’s constitution, passed
The Continental Congress ratified the Articles of Confederation
British were fighting France, Spain, and Holland.
thousands of formerly enslaved Loyalists fled with the British army.
Peace negotiations took place in France, and the war came to an official end on September 3, 1783
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Federalist Papers
Congress announced that a majority of states had ratified the Constitution and that the document was now in effect.
George Washington takes the presidential oath of office.
Ten amendments were added to the constitution
Congress approved a twenty-year charter for the Bank of the United States.
Hamilton proposed a federal excise tax
slave rebellion in Haiti
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Treaty of Greenville
the United States peacefully elected a new president.